The department of Education and Youth Studies will host its 29th Annual Excellence in Teaching Symposium on February 3, 2014. Dr. Marybeth Gasman, Professor of Higher Education at the University of Pennsylvania, will speak on "The Changing Face of Historically Black Colleges and Universities." Dr. Gasman serves as the Inaugural Director of the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions. She regularly writes for The New York Times, the Washington Post, The Huffington Post, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Diverse on issues of race and education.